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Cook County Arrests 80 ‘Deadbeat Dads’

CHICAGO (CBS) — A total of 80 “deadbeat dads” who owe more than $1.7 million in child support were arrested in a two-week Cook County Sheriff sting.

Sheriff Tom Dart announced the arrests the day after Father’s Day.

“It’s particularly troubling to think that even on Father’s Day – a day intended to honor one of the two most important people in a child’s life – there are men continuously shirking their duties,” he said.

The sting targeted dads across Cook County. Among those arrested, Cleveland Keys Jr., 46, of the 1200 block of West 90th Street in Chicago, owed the highest amount of unpaid support at $213,677.41.

“It’s all anonymous,” he said. “We don’t need to know who you are. We will then go out and make the arrest and then bring the individual before a judge where they’ll start doing what they should’ve been doing for years.”